Improvement in apparatus for burning hydrocarbons



w RYNER. Apparatus for Burning Hydrocarbons.

Patented April 7,1874.

Re. I.

'EJNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM RYNER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND JOHN G. HOPEWELL, OF FLEMINGTON, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR BURNING HVDROCARBONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 149,529, dated April 7, 1374; application filed December 4, 1871.

of my liquid-fuel burner.

A is a pipe, communicating with a vessel containin g petroleum, benzine, or other hydrocarbon, and Within this pipe is a nozzle, B, the

tapering end of which projects a short distance into a vessel, D, with which the pipe A also communicates, as shown. A pipe, E, serves to convey superheated steam under 1 pressure to the space between the interior of the pipe A and the nozzle B. The pipes are furnished with suitable cocks for regulating the supply of both oil and steam. At the opposite end of the vessel D is a pipe, F, which may be continued to any desired extent in any direction, the pipe being closed at the end,

and, in the present instance, having perfora tions at the top. The superheated steam, pass ing through the pipe E, and thence through the superheated steam, forms, with the latter,

an inflammable gas, which, escaping under pressure through the perforations e a, will, when ignited, burn with an intense heat.

I am aware that liquid hydrocarbon has been carried by a steam-jet into and through a nozzle, and burned at the end of the latter, and I make no claim to this; but

. I claim-- The combination of the steam and oil pipes for vaporizing a hydrocarbon, a chamber in which the vapors are received and mixed, and a burner communicating with the said chamber, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM BYNER.

. VVitnessesz.

WM. A. STEEL, JOHN K. RUPnRTUs. 

